❝They say courage isn’t the absense of fear but deciding that something else is more important; I wonder if it’s true. ❞
Mary Willow MacDonald ✥ Sixteen ✥ Halfblood ✥ Gryffindor
【Birthday】 July 13th 1960
【Wand】 Willow, unicorn hair, 9 1/4”, slightly unyielding
【Boggart】 Mulciber
【Patronus】 Unable to Cast Currently (Wolf)
【Titles & Clubs】Astronomy Club, Charms Club, Dueling Club
【Positive】 Clever, Independent, Kind-Hearted
【Negative】 Closed Off, Destructive, Low Self Esteem
As a child Mary MacDonald always believed that there was nothing out of the ordinary about her family where magic and muggle life blended almost seamlessly; they lived on the outskirts of a muggle village, and she had both muggle and wizarding children to play with on a regular basis. Her father apparated to work in London every morning, and her mother took the family car into the village where she owned a tea shop. She learned early on that she was not allowed to do magic in front of others because keeping it a secret was very important, but it was sometimes difficult for her not to talk about the wonderful things she and her father could do. More often than not her muggle friends thought that it was all make believe, but Remus Lupin, another halfblood, was always willing to listen to her go on and on about how much she was looking forward to being a real witch.
She’d ‘borrowed’ her father’s Hufflepuff tie and Hogwarts robes so often that he’d made her a set of her very own long before her letter arrived, so when the owl flew in at breakfast slept with it under her pillow for weeks before her mother and father took her to Hogsmeade to buy her first supplies. She rushed to tell Remus, hoping that her excitement would draw him out of his shell, but not for the first time his parents told her that he was too ill to see people. The correlation between the full moon and her friend’s mysterious chronic illness had never occurred to her, but she had grown increasingly concerned by the fact that he was more withdrawn than ever.
While there had been no pressure or expectation, Mary assumed that she would be sorted into Hufflepuff like her father; the Hat paused for a moment before ultimately deciding that she would be better suited for Gryffindor, and she happily took her seat near Remus. Once the school year began in earnest she had no doubts that she belonged among the brave and bold Gryffindors, always willing to stand up for what they believed in, and it brought out the best of her. She became more confident and was an outgoing and vivacious student; Mary was well liked by almost all of her professors, and she excelled at Defense Against the Dark Arts and Charms. Her friendship with Remus became more and more strained as he seemed to withdraw and become secretive, and she grew closer to her roommates: Marlene McKinnon, Alice Fortescue, and Lily Evans.
Her almost idyllic experience at Hogwarts came to a screeching halt just after they returned from Christmas holiday during their fifth year, when for the first time the blood prejudice hit home for Mary. Caius Mulciber and Marcus Avery cornered her in a secluded hallway, wands out and growling about jumped up little halfblood twits who ought to know their places; it was almost two hours before Frank Longbottom, Caradoc Dearborn, and Emma Vanity found them and stopped them from torturing her, and she spent a week in the hospital wing. Word spread quickly through out the student body, but Mary refused to tell Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall who had attacked her. Determined not to allow them to defeat her, she decided to return to school in spite of her parents’ assurances that she could finish out her education at home. Things are different for her now—and she is more withdrawn and quieter—but her friends are determined to protect her and help her find herself again.
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